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Building an Efficient Release Management Process

Split

A streamlined release management process is imperative for mitigating deployment risks and accelerating software delivery. Understanding precisely how to improve release management is key for more efficient software development. It also facilitates stakeholder visibility and governance of releases.

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How To Create Kick-Ass Product Roadmaps (Spoiler Alert: There are 3 types of Roadmaps)

The Product Coalition

3 Different Types of Roadmaps Every PM Needs to Master Roadmapping is not easy. Every company demands different types of Roadmaps, and every PM has their own flavour. Here is a step by step process to create roadmaps so you can influence anyone in your company like a true Jedi. So what is Product Roadmap?

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Product Roadmaps in Five Easy Pieces

Mind the Product

so my investor said that I need a product manager to do our product roadmap?”. When I worked as a product management consultant clients would often talk about “needing a product roadmap ASAP”. In reality, asking for a product roadmap was shorthand for “please help me with my strategy”.

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A Clear Path to Growth and Maturity: Why Does Product Lifecycle Management Matter?

The Product Coalition

I thought we were in good shape, given that this was the next release of an existing software product. In the software or digital world, it’s about managing code, the product, through the steps of its lifecycle from ideation to sunset. They don’t oppose process at a local level; it’s the governance they resist?—?someone

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Change Management Basics

ProductPlan

With the 7 Rs in mind, this isn’t your ordinary project plan because the scope extends far beyond writing code and shipping software. Change management warrants a comprehensive roadmap , including all the multi-pronged, parallel efforts required to plot out and pull off such a massive affair successfully.

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Utility Eats Value for Breakfast: About Diminishing Marginal Utility

The Product Coalition

Why is change management in enterprise software so hard? Users want to use software that will make it easy to collect data. Software developers usually don’t want to work in Microsoft Sharepoint. I interviewed up to ten internal super users who would each review one hundred and twenty SharePoint documents a day.

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Product Management in Healthcare

ProductPlan

They range from gargantuan MRI machines to cotton swabs to the patient portal software for scheduling appointments. This is primarily due to the extremely lengthy timelines and massive budgets for medical research, as well as the regulatory hurdles and safety testing demands for this industry.